With Apple’s Sept. 9 event set to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup, the new Apple Watch is also drawing attention. According to Economic Daily News, Taiwan’s MediaTek will supply 5G modem chips for the next-generation smartwatch—a milestone as Apple adopts its 5G modem products for the first time. ...

NVIDIA and MediaTek are collaborating on the development of the GB10 superchip, with their complementary strengths making for a close partnership. This has even led some outlets, such as TechRadar, to speculate whether NVIDIA might consider a $73 billion acquisition of MediaTek. However, according t...

With NVIDIA’s latest earnings underscoring the AI infrastructure boom, investor focus is also shifting to ASIC demand. According to the Commercial Times, Broadcom has lifted its CoWoS packaging orders for next year, a move likely fueled by rising custom chip needs from Google, Meta, and other clou...

As ultra-fast, high-volume data exchange becomes essential in the AI era, optical communication is becoming a key driver for upgrading data centers and AI infrastructure. According to Commercial Times, the rise of CPO (Co-Packaged Optics) switches is fueling demand for SerDes technology, which conve...

As Qualcomm and Samsung push into the 2nm era with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 and Exynos 2600, Taiwan’s MediaTek confirmed at its July 30 earnings call that it’s also gearing up for 2nm, targeting edge and cloud AI chips—with tape-out expected in September, according to the Economic Daily Ne...